Get Your Captain's License, Fourth Edition

The text is essentially the same as the third edition, with a few typos corrected. It is helpful for the task of preparing one for the exam, but not quite sufficient for the task in my opinion. You will also need to read Chapmans, and other sources, and I recommend a nifty iphone app for the rules of the road, and there is another self-study CD ROM on line that is VERY helpful. Google will find it for you. If you use all of the above sources, you will pass your exam.The best part of Get Your Captain's License is the CD ROM that comes with it. The CD ROM generates practice tests using the actual questions from the Coast Guard exams. The Fourth Edition has updated the exam questions from the Third Edition, and this is the reason to buy the Fourth edition rather than the Third. You can take the captain's exam hundreds or thousands of times until you pass it every time. Then you are ready.

I used an older edition of this study guide as an aid when I took the captain's course (100 ton merchant mariner, near coastal) through a local maritime center. It was invaluable to me. The course moves so swiftly through the material (IMPORTANT material) that it's difficult to take it all in. Charlie Wing's information is complete, very well organized and illustrated, and matched with corresponding test questions from previous exams. The accompanying CD has hundreds of old exams to take, they're graded automatically, making it easy to ensure you have a handle on the material. I bought this edition for my husband when he took the captain's course. It was updated with current changes in charts, etc. Must have for anyone trying to get a mariner's license.

This book contains the same questions as the CG NMC website, but having it in print and separated into sections is very useful; most questions will come from the CFR, however, getting exposed and memorizing a few saves a lot of time on test day. Ground tackle, deck tackle, stability & gryo error well covered. Also contains the full-color guide to running lights, w/ bullet comparison btwen INT & INL ROTR. The CD is a little quarky, b/c it incoroporates a lot of celestial nav problems and MODU questions...w/out a way to filter out...but ROTR questions spot-on.

The rules were clear and that was to be expected. The that went with them however helped to make them more interesting and helped to take away the dryness that accompanies the reading that goes with this type of material.The drawings also provided good demonstrations of the rules. A very good bargain for the money.

I like the book a lot and it is filled with a great amount of information. It is more like a reference material, than a study guide. I have other books that contain less information, but the flow of reading is much easier with the other books.

KINDLE VERSION: I have both the kindle version and the print. I do Not recommend the kindle version. hard to manage no links and you cannot really use it at all on the kindle itself. You can read well on the pc version

product is nice, but if you are going for your ticket, you will have to take the class. This book was a nice study, but you can't get your ticket w/o taking the class

Very good book. Just recently bought it to review before taking my captains license test, covered all of the material. I ended up taking a two week course as well, as I thought it would be too much to try to learn on your own. Glad I did, made the process way easier.